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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Chris Mooney on the Kitzmiller Decision
Propaganda campaigns are one thing, and courtrooms are another. Fortunately.
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Eric Foner Tries to Remind Us of Reconstruction
Forever Free is a reminder of the immense, lasting cost of squandered opportunity.
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Monaghan on Caton on Freeman on Mead
Review of a historian’s take on an anthropologist’s take on an anthropologist.
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A Call for an End to ‘Faith’ Schools in Scotland
‘Religion and education should not be joined.’
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Selective Abortion of Females in India
Half a million babies are aborted every year because they are girls, says Lancet study.
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Lancet Article on Female Abortion [registration]
10 million missing females, and the absolute number is likely to grow in the future.
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Interview With Simon Critchley
Heidegger’s work has ‘a dangerous power that I try to inoculate myself against and always fail.’
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Carlin Romano Reviews a History of Astrology
‘A few bouts of “astrologese” and you’re ready to knock the wizard’s cap off the author’s head.’
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How to Read Derrida and Marx
‘Disconnected from political engagement, reading lacks urgency.’ It does?
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When in Doubt, We Ditch Logic
Brain-imaging study finds that the higher the level of uncertainty, the more instinct, not logic, will rule.
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Oi, George, What About This Leaky Roof?
How easy is it for Galloway’s constituents to contact him? Vikram Dodd finds out.
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Be Careful in Interpreting Poll Results
Unlike scientists, the general public does not understand that belief takes no part in scientific thinking.
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ID’s Big Problem: Who Designed the Designer?
Design is not a real alternative to chance at all because it raises an even bigger problem than it solves.
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You’re Simply Not Allowed to Attack Religion
‘You can attack their politics or their football team, but not their faith.’
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Self-censorship, Mental Torture, Provocation
‘The cartoons did nothing that transcends the cultural norms of secular Denmark.’
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Nick Cohen on ‘The Root of all Evil?’
See the Colorado preacher lose his boyish charm.
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Police and Councils Rely on ‘Community Leaders’
‘There is a belief that those who shout the loudest can best solve the problems within their community.’
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Hairdressers Are the Voice of the Community
Hairdressers act as counsellors and social workers. Do they? Uh oh.
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Ian Buruma on Religion in US and Europe
Americans are falling increasingly into the arms of Jesus – and Europe could go the same way.